Corrected figures are now available and rather than the previously reported 7% gain in periodical sales, they were actually just up 1% over January 2007, while graphic novels were up a modest 3%, not the gaudy 17% that was previously reported. Still nine comic titles sold over 100,000 copies (versus just six in December) and periodical sales did outpace (however slightly) a strong January of 2007, which posted a 26% gain over January of 2006.

The 3% increase in graphic novel sales continued to outpace gains in the sales of periodicals, continuing a trend that was apparent through most of 2007. But the gain in graphic novels was not enough to move the combined sales of comics and graphic novels above the 1% mark.

They appear to have merged the Phoenix Comicon variant’s sales with the rest of the Hulk total this go-around; there are a number of such mergers in the chart, seemingly unrelated to the corrections. I’ll try to note some of the differences when I post my revised estimates.

I also noticed that IDW got listed as IDE in the revised list. The publisher abbreviations may get done manually each month which would explain a lot of the inconsistencies in that area from month to month.

I agree it would be interesting to see the second hundred — they started out listing only 10, and have increased every so often.

100th place seems to be pretty close to the 1,000-copy threshhold — so probably we’re looking at the next 100 adding $1 million or so worth of data, depending on the average price and how quickly the tail flattens.